तदानीमपि पार्श्ववर्तिनमात्मजमिवानुशोचन्तमभिवीक्षमाणो मृग एवाभिनिवेशितमना विसृज्य लोकमिमं सह मृगेण कलेवरं मृतमनु न मृतजन्मानुस्मृतिरितरवन्मृगशरीरमवाप ॥ २७ ॥
tadanim api parsva-vartinam atmajam ivanusocantam abhiviksamano mrga evabhinivesita-mana visrjya lokam imam saha mrgena kalevaram mrtam anu na mrta-janmanusmrtir itaravan mrga-sariram avapa.
- tadanim
- at that time
- api
- indeed
- parsva-vartinam
- by the side of his deathbed
- atma-jam
- his own son
- iva
- like
- anusocantam
- lamenting
- abhiviksamanah
- seeing
- mrge
- in the deer
- eva
- certainly
- abhinivesita-manah
- his mind was absorbed
- visrjya
- giving up
- lokam
- world
- imam
- this
- saha
- with
- mrgena
- the deer
- kalevaram
- his body
- mrtam
- died
- anu
- thereafter
- na
- not
- mrta
- destroyed
- janma-anusmrtih
- remembrance of the incident before his death
- itara-vat
- like others
- mrga-sariram
- the body of a deer
- avapa
- got
At the time of death, the King saw that the deer was sitting by his side, exactly like his own son, and was lamenting his death. Actually the mind of the King was absorbed in the body of the deer, and consequently—like those bereft of Krsna consciousness—he left the world, the deer, and his material body and acquired the body of a deer. However, there was one advantage. Although he lost his human body and received the body of a deer, he did not forget the incidents of his past life.